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In the spring of 2020, when Lacroix and Métivier decided to sell their distillery, the Bourassa brothers acquired it, adding spirits to their extensive range of maple products. Among these is a maple vodka that keeps the distillery on that innovative path. This is no boring vodka made by drowning neutral spirit in maple flavour. That’s not the Shefford way, and neither is it Bourassa’s.

Tasting reviewsBlair PhillipsMarch 23, 2021Distillerie SheffordCanadian Artisan Spirits, Canadian Distillery, Quebec, Distillerie Shefford, Canadian Distilleries, Quebec Distillery, Vodka, Quebec Vodka, Canadian Voka, Canadian Vodka, Maple Vodka, Maple Spirits, acerum

Arbutus Baba Yaga Absinthe: Home In a Barrel

Thomas Edison invented the phonograph in 1877 just as France’s “green hour” rose to prominence. At 5PM, everyone from wealthy aristocrats to struggling artists would crowd into cafes and bars to drink absinthe. The spirit quickly became a scapegoat for every ill of society. It was absinthe that was to blame for the decline of civilization.

Tasting reviewsBlair PhillipsMarch 1, 2021Arbutus Distilleryabsinthe, Arbutus Distilery, Arbutus, British Columbia, British Columbia Distillery, British Columbia Spirits, Canadian Distillery, Canadian Artisan Spirits, Canadian Artisan Spirit Awards, Nanaimo, Canadian Spirits, Green Fairy, Baba Yaga, Canadian Absinthe